2009-2010 Graduate Student Fellows 

Elena Deanda-Camacho, Mary and Joe Harper Fellow
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
“Poetics and Politics of Obscenity and the Spanish Inquisition”  

Gesa Frömming
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
“The Musical Moment – On Love, Politics, and Melancholy in 18th Century Thought”

Patrick Jackson, American Studies Fellow
Department of History
“Evangelicals and American Political Culture, 1925-1978”  

Sarah Kersh
Department of English
“Naked Novels: Victorian Amatory Sonnet Sequences and the Problem of Marriage

Gail McConnell, Queen’s University Belfast
Department of English
“Religion and Theology in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry”  

Elizabeth Meadows
Department of English
“Morbid Strains: Obsession and Spectacle in Victorian Literature from In Memoriam to The Picture of Dorian Gray”  

Rachel Nisselson
Department of French and Italian
“Forgetting the Future: Memory and the Future of Israel/Palestine in 20th and 21st Century Francophone Literature”  

Matt Whitt, George J. Graham, Jr. Fellow
Department of Philosophy
“The Paradox of Sovereignty: Authority and Identity in a Globalizing World”